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# collective

«collective» in Mova's school dictionary: **Done or shared by all members of a group together** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (collective); noun (a collective, collectives)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (adjective) Done or shared by all members of a group together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#m1)

2) (noun) A group of people who work together and share what they make or own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#m2)

3) (grammar) A collective noun is a word for a group, like a flock of sheep, a team or a herd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in grammar lessons (collective nouns: a pride of lions, a swarm of bees), citizenship (collective decisions) and everyday life (collective effort). Phrases: collective noun, collective effort, collective responsibility, a farmers' collective.

### examples

- "Flock" is a collective noun for sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#x1)
- It was a collective effort to clean the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#x2)
- The class made a collective decision to raise money for the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#x3)
- A pride of lions is a collective noun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#x4)
- The artists formed a collective and shared a studio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#x5)
- We felt a collective sigh of relief when the test ended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#x6)
- A murder of crows is a funny collective noun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/#x7)

### note

Adverb: collectively. With collective nouns, UK English often uses a plural verb (the team are winning), US uses singular (the team is winning). Related: collect, collection.

### In the corpora

- [A collective noun names a group, like a team, a class, a herd or a flock of sheep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/11/)
- [That is called collective punishment, and it is not fair to the others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/3/)
- [Punishing a whole group for what one person did is called collective punishment; it is unfair to those who did nothing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «collective» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collective/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.